101 What My Plan Was! Part 1 (1/2)
So this is the summary of what I planned for TDDL when I started writing it. Issues appeared which I am slowly resolving, but still finding difficult to handle which was the reason I couldn't continue writing this. One thing that is weird about me is that I cannot do hiatus's, (like more than a few months). I know I had times where I didn't write for a month, but it was only because these problems I have to deal with. I won't continue TDDL (I am sad too). If you ever read my first book, The Lost Shadow, I went on a long 3 year hiatus because of school and stuff, but when I came back I was unable to keep writing it. I am unable to write after a hiatus that lasts too long, I don't know why, but I find it difficult to get back into the same mindset and mood. Enough of the chit chat, this was my goal, you guys can try to imagine it if you want. I will split this into different parts because there was just too much planned.
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During the fight with the ice/fire guy, Arnin would have lost of course, but not become as injured as he was. He would only experience slight injuries, but this would have been his first loss (like in a fair fight). After healing up, he would head towards the final battle that would happen between the top ten. He would join in this fight, and end up entering the top ten, but not any higher. He loses some matches and understands that his cultivation is too low and that he is too dependent on his previous powers (as in his previous understanding of the elements). Arnin then begins to mess around with his Elemental Seeds and learns how to use them more efficiently. His Flames of Neutrality is upgraded and can basically burn Hell flames and also match Heaven flames. His Seed of Blood remains the same strength as it is already very strong, while he is able to learn more about the concept of time. The battlefield ends and the result is out. The ice/fire guy comes out as the first place, while Arnin is fifth.
Now begins the 2/3 of the second book. This time it is taken place in Thorn Academy. Not the cave, but the actual academy, which is connected to the battlefield through a teleportation formation. In the academy, the top three are taken under different masters, with the ice/fire guys being under the strongest elder. Elder Kocyte asks (kind of forces) Arnin to be his disciple, and Arnin agrees since there isn't much to lose. Plus, Arnin learns that Kocyte is the most protective of his disciple, which Arnin wants to exploit. He begins training under this elder and meets a few of his fellow disciples. The oldest disciple is actually past the Elemental Formation realm and is in a realm known as the Tiny World realm. It is the realm where one would begin to create a small world inside the orb in their body. The thing is that this world is not like the spatial rings or interspatial bags where they can store external items. No. It is a different world. This world would basically be built around the Elemental Tree (Which is what one achieves at the end of Elemental Formation - Heaven) and this world used essence to create items and life-based on the element(s) of the cultivator. But whatever for now.
Arnin doesn't really want to be under this Tiny World realmed fellow disciple, so he basically starts to go into seclusion. He already has good knowledge of most of his elements (even a bit for the time element because of his previous life) and begins to consolidate his realm and understating. During his seclusion, he also practices his alchemy and mark making skills. He breakthroughs in each and enters a new realm. For mark making, he is finally able to revert to his unique method and becomes a Green Mark Master (huge boost), while his alchemy reached the Yellow realm. (refer to chapter 54 to know the order in colors). No one finds out about these breakthroughs as he plans to keep it a secret.
He comes out of seclusion (a few weeks later).
Coming out, he finds out that his new rival, ice/fire guys reached Essence Manifest - Hell, while he himself was still in Essence Manifest - Earth. Arnin decides that he wants to go and check out the library of Thorn Academy. He has enough academic points (which he earned in the battlefield). He goes and hears news about his slave, Canae. After coming out the battlefield, she became an outer disciple (butterfly equivalent). He learns that she had made a reputation of herself by fighting people a realm higher than her. She was even accepted by a teacher as a disciple, but she declined.
Hearing this, Arnin makes plans to bring her back to his side.
In the library, Arnin looks for books that would talk about time and space. Currently, that is his focus since his Seed of Neutrality and Seed of Blood, and Seed of Rebirth wasn't too difficult to understand. Only time was lacking.
He reads more and more and finds out that there are actually people who have masteries over the time element, but they could on be found in the central region of the Human continent. Arnin makes it his plan to reach the central region.
After coming out of the library and getting every news he does, he looks for his' master' and tells him to bring Canae to him and let her stay with him. HIs master of course readily agrees, but under the condition that Arnin showcases his blood element for him. Arnin doesn't mind and does so, it wasn't like he could lose anything. Kocyte gains new understand and then showcases his own blood, which Arnin surprisingly finds to be very helpful.
Soon, Canae is brought to him and Arnin begins his plan to train her into becoming his commander. Canae asks about her sister and Arnin says he doesn't know and that Canae will not meet her sister until she becomes strong enough. Arnin also 'promises' to make her sisters life easy. Canae agrees and focuses completely on increasing her strength.
Little does she know that her sister, Sinfallel, is actually being used by Arnin for experiments. It is in his own private home, so no one knows.
Arnin does real experiments on her, like testing different medicines and also testing out his powers on her. However, Arnin has a real goal in his long term experiment. To add more orbs into the human body. With one orb absorbing essence to increase his strength, Arnin wants to know whether he could have multiple orbs in the body and completely replace the organs.
If he could have an orb replacing a heart, and actually make it function, he could become much stronger and also make his body double the power of his elements by creating elemental seeds in each orb and have them specifically focus on it.
To do this experiment, Arnin begins to kidnap outer disciples without catching anyone's attention. He dissects their orbs out and implants them into Sinfallel. The first few times it fails and the orbs just don't work with her body.
These experiments go on throughout the whole Thorn Academy arc.
Other then that, Arnin keeps lowkey and focuses on cultivating. He wants to increase his strength, train Canae and also do his experiments.
A month goes by like this (events of course happen, but I won't go into detail). He meets the Headmistress and Fae one day.
They want him to go back to Lepidoptera Academy as their academies spy since people already know of him there and only a few people know about him being chased out and almost killed.
Arnin only agrees when he told that the top echelon (kelnorin, the principal, a few reclusive elders, and many Moth elders) are heading out to fight for a new dimension that was discovered. Of course the top echelon of the Thorn Academy is also going to fight for the dimension because it has many resources that are important to them.
Before Heading out, Arnin prepares Canae's proper training plan and also hides all his experiments. HIs master gives him a saber before departing with the rest to fight for the dimension.
This would be the end of Book 2.
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Book 3 would start again with Lepidoptera academy. Arnin acts like nothing happened and explains to many people (his slave/servant, the two sisters, and his first commanders (fat guy) Akig) that he was seclusion. They all believe him because of his rise in realms.
Arnin notices that Akig is actually much stronger than when he left, Orb Birth - Hell, while his beast powers were equivalent to a Rank 1 Beast (just gonna call demonic beasts and Essence beasts as beasts for simplicity). This was shocking. (Akig is in the alchemy dimension during this time, so is Arnin). Arnin decides that it is time to begin the next step in training Akig. He goes out the alchemy dimension and brings Akig's three friends (again a lot of excluded and conflicts that arise to get them, but in the end, he gets them and loses nothing).
Akig is going to train with his three friends, at least that is what he thinks. His friends don't know a thing about Akig being a hybrid, all they care about is getting the so-called 'private' training.
During this training, Arnin basically indirectly causes the death of Akig's friends deaths (most brutal way possible) by using Akig's hands. Of course, Akig doesn't know that Arnin has a hand behind this. At the same time, Arnin begins the creation of the bloodline pill by sacrificing Vilis (not vilis! Nooo). Vilis couldn't struggle because he was killed by Arnin secretly (Arnin couldn't fight him directly because Vilis followed Arnin voluntarily and was not his real tamed beast. Plus Vilis ends up evolving to Rank 2 - Sky)
Arnin creates the pill and places it inside the body of the last remaining friend. This time, Akig is already mentally broken down because of his two friends deaths. However, the benefits are that his beast strength and normal strength are alot higher. (Essence Manifest - Earth, and Rank 1 - Sky strength)
He finally kills his last friend (again caused by Arnin indirectly) and he swallows the bloodline pill, completely turning into a hybrid and awakening his tiger blood. His transformation is kind of crazy as he becomes able to transform into a tiger (albeit smaller then Vilis) and also back into a human. He is also able to become a half human - half tiger. (cool sh*t)
This process takes three months.
During these three months, Arnin is also doing many other things. Lilise and Elidia are looked after of course because of the contract, but Arnin is also collecting different information from the academy. He learns new things such as how many cities and towns are supporting Lepidoptera.
Quick thing: Xillar is in seclusion after Arnin escaped. He doesn't know Arnin is back, just so you all know.
But yea, Arnin is collecting information and stuff, while also making lots of academic points by selling pills and cultivation stones. He converts most of the points into coins and real currency. Arnin also enters Essence Manifest - Sky during this time. He is not totally focusing on increasing realm, rather he is trying to consolidate his realm.
All the information he gets is kept and only a few things are told to Thorn academy. He has his own plans.
Later on, Arnin learns that his parents visited Lepidoptera academy while he was at thorn academy. He takes this into account and understands that they are headed to the central city.
Arnin continues to gather information on Lepidoptera and continues to strengthen Akig and himself. What Thorn Academy doesn't know is that Arnin is spreading information about them as well to the remaining higher ups secretly. (he learns all of this before heading to Lepidoptera)
Another few months go by and the time for the bet is nowhere. Arnin meets with the Moth teacher known as Zesiro and duels on pill making. She is a higher level than him, but Arnin ties with her in the end. Although she makes a better pill, Arnin 'creates' a new pill that is much more useful (this pill is a good one from his past life). The bet ends with no one gaining anything, but surprisingly Arnin apologizes to Zesiro for his past actions and says that he has thought long and hard and he knows he was in the wrong.
Caught by surprise, Zesiro doesn't really know what to do but tells him to apologize to her young miss. Arnin obliges and does just that. Little does she know Arnin has a plan behind all of this. benefiting himself greatly.
Arnin meets the young miss he beat up and apologizes profusely. The girl accepts it in the end, and they both slowly become friends. (process takes a while, but eventually Arnin wins her over).
Arnin is now six and considered somewhat of a prodigy in the academy which him being at Essence Manifest - Hell (he breaks through and begins to rapidly grow in strength.)
Arnin then looks for the first person to ever humiliate him in Afloria (the guy who was in Elemental Formation and kind of threw him out). Arnin privately finds him and asks to duel with him. If Arnin wins, the boy has to do one thing for him, while if he loses, Arnin will become his dog.
Arnin fights the guy and beats him, but surprisingly it is not brutal. Arnin makes sure to give him little to no injuries.
Arnin requests the guy something and then the guy disappears to get that task done.
Students are now allowed to go back to their homes to visit for two weeks. Arnin meets Lilise and Elidia's parents for the first time. He finds out that they are actually at Elemental Formation - Earth each. Lilise praises him greatly, while Elidia keeps quiet. He makes sure to seem like a good child and they take their leave, of course, the father leaves his contact info behind for Arnin.
Akig's family comes to pick him up as well, they see that he has changed a lot, but the oldest man seems more happy to see the change. Arnin meets with Akig's grandpa and asks about the whole tiger situation. The old man is surprised but tells Arnin some things. He thanks him for helping and caring for Akig, before departing. Arnin tells the old man something before he leaves, which makes the old man leave with Akig with a heavy expression.
After settling this, the girl Arnin previously beat up and apologized to, Monifa, also leaves after bidding Arnin farewell. As for his two slaves/servants, they don't really need to go home since their family is too far.
After everyone leaves, he gets a message that he is being called back to Thorn Academy.
A storm is brewing in the back that only the top echelon of each academy know about. Arnin finds it amusing and he heads back.
End of Book 3
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Book 4 (Extremely long and lots happen) starts in Thorn Academy. Arnin gets rid of all evidence related to his experiments but keeps Sinfallel alive for a plan.
Arnin tells Canae to do a task for him in a certain location. He tells her to go to a certain place and wait for him if she completes it early. He will let her meet her sister there. Canae agrees and leaves the academy.
Arnin meets with Fae, Kocyte, and the Headmistress. They make him tell them what he learned so far and he does (of course he leaves some vital information, but tells them some important things in order not to make them suspicious).